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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18 May
1918

Headless Cross Soldiers Killed – News has been received by Mrs Goodall, of 73
Birchfield Road, Headless Cross, whose husband Gunner Goodall, is serving at the front, that
her eldest son, Lance-Corporal Harry Goodall, was killed in action somewhere in France on
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April 12 1918. Lance-Corporal Goodall enlisted when he was 16 years of age, and went out
to France when he was 19. He had been at the front 10 months. He was in charge of a
bombing party when he was struck by shrapnel. He lived for about half-an-hour, during
which time every attention was paid to him, but he died before the doctor arrived. Prior to
the war he was employed at the Birmingham Small Arms Co., Redditch.

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(On Ancestry site Military records, Lance Corporal Harry Goodall, (202793) 4 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 12 April 1918,
France & Flanders. Remembered on Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.)

Lance Corporal Harry Goodall – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Harry Goodall lived with his parents William Jesse and Ruth Goodall at 73 Birchfield Road,
Redditch.)

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